Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili

Saute chunks of sweet potato in spices, add black beans and water, let simmer until fully cooked through. Next day it is even tastier! Top with plain yogurt and cilantro.

Vegetarian Southern-Inspired New Year Feast

Thanks V&C for the good-luck, delicious, New Years Day dinner!

(p.s. those are veggie sausage bits in the black eyed peas)

Quiche Night

 Zucchini, Cheese & Herbs in a Potato Crust

Sauteed Mushrooms, Cheese & Herbs in a Potato Crust

Happy Thanksgiving!

 Just pulled the bread out of the oven...

 ...and the pumpkin pie is cooling

... and the dressing is ready to go. Ready for Thanksgiving, tomorrow!

Herbs Drying

Drying the thyme, oregano, and rosemary for use this winter.

Food

kale and brown rice

pumpkin pie

Colorful Cookies

to start: many blank canvases and a shot of bourbon

the end: many very colorful cookies!

Happy Holidays!

I am such a lucky daughter! My mom baked and mailed me cookies (and divinity!!) -- SO delicious. What a treat!

My lemon rosemary cookies, lime meltaway cookies and chocolate cayenne cookies are ready to go in the oven for tonight and tomorrow's festivities.

Be safe and have fun!

Kumquats

kumquats are delightful and they go so well with my beautiful, vintage, blue glass measuring cups given to me by a very generous friend

Our Sushi

We had fun with smoked salmon, avocado, cucumber and sprouts!
A yummy & healthy dinner by candlelight.

Campfire Cookery

What a delightful book! I assumed it would be a fun cookbook, but it is filled with many more clever insights like:
- elementary stargazing and orienteering
- tarot card and tea leaf reading
- ghost stories
- interesting information on the "true" marshmallow
- fishing lure & lore
- how to whittle away
- how to build a fire and more....

With whimsical writing like "Oh, sublime magnificence! Would one dare to eat such a peach?" or "To quiet one's cantankerous belly in the peckish hours before the evening meal, one can do no better than these nibbles; we also find that children flock, as if following the Pied Piper, to the tartine table." Who wouldn't want this book? I love it!